In 2013, Massachusetts State Police arrested 35-year-old crime drug lab chemist Sonja Farak for tampering with evidence: and that was only the beginning. Over time, details emerged that Farak had been in fact using the drugs that she was tasked with testing. From director Erin Lee Carr. I shot this using the Sony F55 and Sony FS7mk2. Shane Sigler shot all of the recreations and a few interviews.
Directed by Andrew Rossi (“Page One: Inside the New York Times,” “The First Monday in May”) and executive produced by CNN’s Brian Stelter, After Truth examines “fake news,” its victims, its perpetrators, and its consequences. Andrew Rossi, Adam McGill and I shot this with the Sony FS7, Canon C300 and Sony A7S2.
Please check out the latest short documentary from director Kate Novack over at The New York Times. Op-Docs is premiering one of SXSW’s picks, which re-examines Freud through the lens of his female subject.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007026836/hysterical-girl.html
Featuring exclusive interviews with survivors of the 2017 sexual abuse scandal, the documentary looks at the shocking stories of the gymnasts who made courageous efforts to reveal a dangerous system that prioritized winning over everything. At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal premieres May 3, 2019 at 8pm ET. Shot on Arri Alexa Mini.
I spent a little over two and a half years covering the case of Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy with the team of Erin Lee Carr, Alison Byrne and Andrew Rossi. It will air on HBO this summer. Shot with the Sony FS7 and A7SII.
A behind the scene look at some of the world’s biggest events. I shot 3 episodes with Bob Richman and Andrew Rossi (Chanel, Westminster and Cassini) and 1 with Graham Willoughby (Eleven Madison Park).
In 2016 and 2017, I joined forces with director, Kate Novack, to tell the story of one of the most important figures in the world of fashion. Andre Leon Talley is a true inspiration and maverick as seen in his years at The Costume Institute, Interview Magazine and Vogue.
In 2014 and 2015, filmmaker Andrew Rossi and I followed Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour, Vogue Director of Special Projects Sylvana Ward Durrett, and Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton as they planned 2015’s exhibition and gala “China: Through the Looking Glass.” The First Monday in May, also gives a behind-the-scenes look at the ultra-exclusive party of the year.
In 2016, I teamed up with director, Andrew Rossi, to tell the electrifying story of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show, Bronx Gothic.
A documentary film that I shot with director, Erin Lee Carr, about the murder of Dee Dee Blancharde, for which her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blancharde, was accused.
A compelling documentary about New York’s ‘cannibal cop’ raises uncomfortable questions about how far fantasy can go before it is interpreted as conspiracy to murder. I shot this with director, Erin Lee Carr, in 2014 until early 2015. Thought Crimes premiered Monday, May 11th, 2015 at 9pm, only on HBO.
Is college worth the cost? Andrew Rossi's CNN film examines how higher education got so expensive and what that means for America's future. I shot this film along with Andrew Coffman and Andrew Rossi.
I shot a few sit down interviews and scenes at The New York Times Printing Plant for director Andrew Rossi. A fascinating look at the inner workings of my favorite newspaper.
Reject examines the serious impact of social rejection through the findings of social and biological scientists, lessons from the classroom and the justice system, and first-hand accounts from children and their families. I shot this film along with Nara Garber for director Ruth Thomas-Suh.
A sheltered heiress who grew up cloistered in one of New York City’s most richly-historied mansions, kept, along with her sisters and beautiful young mother under lock and key by a well-meaning but domineering, old world tycoon father, Altina Schinasi Miranda (1907-1999), a pre-feminist visionary, broke wildly free of her constraints and forged a free-spirited, civically active, and creatively prolific life. I shot this documentary from 2009-2010 for director Peter Sanders.
Trailer for the landmark concert film that follows three acclaimed comedians on stage and off as they lift the veil to reveal the humorous truth of what it's really like to be Muslim in America. Mo Amer, Azhar Usman, and Preacher Moss poke fun at themselves, their communities, government, human nature and the tricky predicament of living in post-9/11 America. I shot this for director Andrea Kalin in 2008 for her company, Spark Media.
Stories of early childhood marriage from Yemen, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. I shot this over the course of a month in 2004 for the UNFPA and Spark Media.
A story of survival, the streets and the power of friendship. A gritty story of three friends from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis and George Jenkins, who made a pact in high school to find a way to go to college and then medical school. The three doctors not only accomplished this, but they are now spreading the word to inspire other inner-city kids to stay off the streets and take the educational route to a better life. I shot this documentary for Andrea Kalin of Spark Media back in 2005. This was the first official documentary of my career. Special thanks to Anthony Maddox for connecting me to Spark and this project.